Industrial Design in Vietnam

Documents identifying an industrial design registered for protection in an industrial design registration application include a description and a set of photos or drawings of such industrial design[...]

On the date of expiration of the time limit for substantive examination of an application at the latest,the NOIP shall send to the applicant one of the following notices[...]

In order to reach the Industrial design registration certificate, the applicants have to fulfill the whole examination procedure consists of following steps[...]

1. General provisions on renewal of validity of protection titles Industrial design patents shall have a validity starting from the grant date and expiring at the end of 5 years after the filing date and may be renewed for two consecutive terms, each of 5 years. Request for renewal of...

Where an applicant for registration of an industrial design knows that such industrial design is being used by another person without prior use right for commercial purposes[...]

1. Minimum documents - 02 Declaration for registration which are typed according to form No. 03-KDCN Appendix A of Circular No. 01/2007/TT-BKHCN; - 01 copy of the industrial design description; . - 04 sets of photos or 04 sets of drawings of an industrial design. - Fee and charge receipts. 2. Other documents (if...

SBLaw would like to provide legal service for filling industrial design in Vietnam as follows:

1. novel industrial design - An industrial design shall be deemed to be new if it significantly differs from other industrial designs which have been publicly disclosed by use or by means of written descriptions or in any other form either inside or outside Vietnam prior to the filing date or the priority date, as applicable, of the application for registration of the industrial design.

Use of an industrial design is regulated by Vietnam IP law as follows:

1. Definition Industrial design means a specific appearance of a product embodied by three-dimensional configurations, lines, colors, or a combination of these elements. Products herein are understood to mean articles, tools, equipments, or parts used for assembling such products, manufactured by industrial or handicraft methods, with a structure and clear function,...

The required document for filling industrial design in Vietnam is as follows:

(1) Filing the application In order to obtain right for industrial design in Viet Nam,you must file the application for granting an industrial design patent,directly or by mail,to the National Office of Intellectual Property of Viet Nam (NOIP) or its brand offices in Ho Chi Minh City or Da Nang. Organizations,individuals...

The refusal accept the valid application of Vietnam Industrial design registration is realized as follows[...]

An application for a Industrial design registration filed with the NOIP shall be subject to formality examination for evaluating its validity[...]